KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD - THE RISE AND FALL OF A REALITY TV QUEEN (107 page)

ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME

Besides the fact that Kate shouldn’t be tweeting every tiny detail of her children’s lives to strangers, she always manages to make EVERYTHING about herself. She also takes cues and ideas from her tweeties and makes them her own.

Here’s a girl who randomly tweeted to Kate that she was watching a specific episode of
Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht
, and, miraculously, Kate and her boys happened to be watching the EXACT SAME episode.

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 I’m watching the episode of J&K+8 when the twins get there instruments! Me and my twin also played those same exact instruments.

oh my! The boys are watching that now! I watched too! They were little and toothless playing instruments! So cute!

What are the odds of that happening? Does Kate ever realize how foolish and full of crap she sounds? There are close to 150 episodes of
Jon & Kate Plus Ei8ht
and
Kate Plus Ei8ht
, and Kate said she was watching the exact same episode at the exact same time as her tweetie.

After reading her Twitter feed for so long, I have seen that it is impossible for Kate to receive a tweet and not end up making it about herself. Read these tweets to see how Kate turns everything back to her:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Been crying my eyes out..just received a call that my great aunt passed away :*(…can I get a RT?

my great aunt passed away as well last week. I’m sad too… Hang in there; I know how you are feeling :(

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 My twins Kaylin & Carye turn 4 today!!!!

happy 4
th
! When I turned 4, I asked my mom all day ‘can’t u believe I’m 4 mom?’ I guess I couldn’t believe it, lol!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Busy week here at home and tchng 3rd grade too:) Coursework due, mileage to get in and girl scout leader stuff-Motivate!

that’s exactly how I’m feeling today.. The list is so long, I can’t see the bottom of it.. Good luck!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 HEY KATE MY GRANDMA DIED SATURDAY AT 1 AM I AM SO SAD I NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO

oh no!!!
I remember how I felt! It's devastating! Are you ok? I'm so sorry...

This poor girl in the following tweet was just trying to ask Terri Irwin a simple question. She didn’t include Kate Gosselin in her tweet, but because Kate follows Terri Irwin on Twitter, and Kate is on Twitter most of the day, every day (except when she is out and about pampering herself), she decided to insert herself into the conversation and make it about herself, as always:

xxxxx
@TerriIrwin How long is a Rhino pregnant for? :-)

I thought same thing… But,must say,however long it is,I’m SURE I was also pregnant same X..Felt that way anyway!Lol/

MARATHON MOMMA

Kate gave a speech at Penn State University on November 3, 2011. She tweeted later that that was the day she decided to run her first full marathon…which just happened to be only one month later. She certainly didn’t give herself a lot of time to prepare.

Julie May, Kate’s brilliant manager, decided that after Kate failed miserably at everything else, she would try to rebrand her once again into a fitness expert and have her become a “runner” to inspire moms the world over to get in shape. Since Julie May is the brains behind the operation, Kate nodded her head up and down and went along with the plan. Kate sees only dollar signs.

So when Kate got the following tweet, a light bulb –albeit a dim one –went off above her head.

Oooooooh. So that’s why she wanted to run a marathon. For her kids. It sounds like a random tweeter gave Kate the idea that running a marathon would be a good example for her kids.

So Kate was setting a good example for her kids by flying off to Las Vegas with a married man for nine days to participate in a race that was going to take mere hours? If Kate’s motivation for running really was about setting a goal, working hard and teaching her kids a lesson, then why did she need to leave them for so long and travel to an adult playground in the desert? She could have driven an hour to Philadelphia for their marathon or competed in one of the many marathons near her house.

The Philadelphia Marathon was held on November 20, 2011. I’m betting that since it was an actual, sanctioned race in a blue-collar town, the thought of competing there never even crossed Kate’s mind.

If her running was truly about the kids, she would have taken them to Philly in the van and had them there at the finish line “cheering her on.” They could have brought the signs they made for her, watched her cross the finish line, and had an all-around great day. They would have been back home before dark.

As it turned out, Kate taught them the lesson that being a mom means spending hundreds of hours away from them training for and competing in a marathon on the other side of the country.
For most parents who put their children’s needs ahead of their own, the last thing they would ever want to do is spend so much time AWAY from them. Actions speak louder than words, and Kate doesn’t seem to realize that her kids have been watching and internalizing her actions their entire lives. And they won’t ever forget them.

To be fair to Kate, there are countless parents in the world who couldn’t care less about their children and who do things to their children even worse than what Kate ever did to hers. Some people’s children are less important to them than others. For me? My world revolves around my children. Kate’s world revolves around Kate.

Here are some of Kate’s tweets about running:

@
runnersworld
no!I’m running the las Vegas rock n roll marathon on Dec 4!Omg!I can’t believe I’m doing it! Scared2death!0 prof training!EEK!

So Kate tweets to
Runners World
and she just happens to land an interview in
Runners World
a few months later? No. This connection was set up by Kate’s manager well in advance as part of Kate’s rebranding. It was meant to appear “organic,” as Julie May says on her website.

This is a question from the interview with Kate in
Runners World:

Q: What do your kids think about your running? Do they understand it?

Yes, I think the best part of running and the best part of running this marathon is the fact that my kids see me pick a goal and they see me complete it…

Kate has her priorities a bit backwards She should be helping her children achieve THEIR goals.

Q: Are you bringing them with you?

I’m not. And I’m sad. I have promised them I will run one that they can be at the finish line. I would like to see no other eight people more than them at the finish line. I’m sad that they’re not going to be there…

Kate also talked about the t-shirt she wore:

“…my marathon t-shirt, and a new Inspirational t-shirt I had made for this day. The front said “finishing is winning” and the back said
“my first 26.2 is for all the nonbelievers.”

Kate explained the sentiment on the back of her shirt by saying that she dedicated the first marathon to “anyone who doubted me!” “I have to say, I really love to prove people wrong!” But Kate has always said that she ignores her haters. She even tweeted that “To me, they don’t even exist.”

So rather than dedicating her marathon to her children, Kate dedicated it to complete strangers who don’t believe in her and who criticize her and call her out on her lies. Those are the same people she says she ignores. For someone who claims to not care at all about what her “haters” or “nonbelievers” think or say about her, she sure went to a lot of trouble to prove them wrong. The only people even talking about Kate at this point were online bloggers who don’t like her. You’d have to actually go to their blogs to even know this.
And just what kind of lesson, exactly, was she teaching her children by wearing a t-shirt with that spiteful and completely unnecessary message?

Kate also talked about “how proud my eight little cheerleader are!?” Kate is too self-absorbed to see that it should be the other way around. She should be the cheerleader for her children. She is so wrapped up in herself, that she has reversed the roles of parent and child.

Meanwhile, the Gosselin children have never been involved in any activity outside of school. Her
7-year-old sextuplets at the time of this writing had never done a sport, in a league, with other little children. TLC took the kids to a single gymnastics lesson to film an episode, but after that, Kate told the kids and the world that it was too expensive to continue doing gymnastics.

Everything you do as a good parent should be for your children, rather than looking at your children as your
“eight little cheerleaders!”
If ever there was single statement from Kate telling us exactly where her children fit into her life, it’s that one right there. “My eight little cheerleaders.” It is now and always has been, all about Kate Gosselin.

Here are some tweets from Kate talking about the race after the fact:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Hey Kate…Was that Rod Dixon U met at the finish line?

yes- met him Friday night and he surprised me at finish line!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 U were very fortunate 2have opportunity 2meet up w/Rod Dixon…2 get personal advice from him! A proven winner himself!

and we shall stay in touch… He’s amazing!

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 That was such an accomplishment, I bet you are still on cloud 9. I know I would be.

and looking forward to next with help of rod Dixon! :) can’t wait!

Knowing how manufactured Kate’s every move is, it doesn’t seem likely that Rod Dixon just happened to “surprise” her at the finish line. More likely, it was a meeting set up in advance by her manager, Julie May, who, by the way, just happened to be standing there with Rod Dixon waiting for
Kate to arrive at the finish line. Julie probably had to point Kate out to him so he could fulfill his end of the contract.

Rod Dixon is over 60 years old and a very accomplished athlete. Kate expects us to believe that he took time out of his life to “surprise” her at the finish line just because he wanted to.

There has been much online speculation about whether or not Kate Gosselin even finished the marathon on her own. People who say they were actually there, running in the race themselves, saw Kate walking, being driven on a scooter by her bodyguard from check point to check point, etc. I can’t verify these reports. What I do know is that Kate’s word is suspect, given that I’ve caught her lying about 500 times.

This is what I know as fact. Kate does run. I have seen her running near her home. Whenever I’ve seen her running though, she looks more like a donkey plodding along the street. She looks to be in pain and near death. So when I watched the video online of Kate crossing the finish line of her first 26.2 mile marathon, fresh-faced, smiling and not looking even a little bit exhausted, it was hard not to believe there’s truth to the rumors of her cheating.

The other think I know as fact is that Kate Gosselin takes every shortcut there is in life. Are we to believe that this time she actually accomplished something on her own…without help? I sure don’t.

Kate addressed the cheating rumor in this tweet:

xxxxx @Kateplusmy8 Some runners are saying you were seen riding on a scooter and did not run the entire race. Please correct this inaccuracy.